E is for Exit: The Game - The Forbidden Castle

by Kosmos

I've always loved the idea of an escape room, so I bought a bunch of these Exit series games and we haven't really gotten around to playing them for some reason. We did the Abandoned Cabin (2.5/5 difficulty) version a few years ago and haven't gotten around to playing another one. So here's an excuse!

Players: 1-4

Time: 60-90 minutes

Ages: 12+

Theme: Escape Room

Mechanics: Deduction Puzzle

So how did we do? Really poorly according to the scoring system. While we didn't use too many clue cards, we spent way too long (2.5 hours!!) making our escape, which brought our score down to a dismal 4/15. That's totally an F.

Here are my notes...

I was actually interested in the game for the first few puzzles. But somewhere around the 1.5 hour mark, I began to feel really discouraged. Some of these puzzles were so obtuse or they were neat concepts with poor execution. By the 2 hour mark, I was in the kitchen washing dishes, while Dustin toughed it out and finished it up. Here's what it looked like towards the end there. It was really hard for me to cut the chunk out of that card, btw. It felt so wrong. And on that note, it's kind of a bummer that these can't be enjoyed multiple times. I mean, I wouldn't play again, but I'd totally pass it off to someone smarter than me...

Maybe escape rooms aren't for me??!

Our Rating: 4/10 stars. We didn't really care for it, but we're thinking maybe we'd like it more with a few extra brains to pick up the slack... Or maybe we just need to play a lower difficulty. So we'd try it again...